Combined package-protector and strap-holder.



E. E. DAVIS.

COMBINED PACKAGE PROTECTOR AND STRAP HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED sEPT.23,1916.

1,212,190. Patenied 331116,1917.

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COMBINED :PACKAGE-PROTECTOR AND STRAP-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1917.

Application filed September 23, 1916. Serial No. 121,721.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD E. DAv'Is, acitizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the countyof Milwaukee and State of TvVisconsin, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Combined Package-Protectors and Strap-Holders andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in meansfor protecting the edges of packages from possible damage by securingstraps or cords thereon, and for preventing displacement of such strapsor cords of the package.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a device wherebythe cords or straps of a package may be held against possibledisplacement without the necessity of ixedlyv attaching the holdingdevice to the package, and a further object, which is compassed in theaccomplishment of the foregoing object, is the provision of meansaffording a maximum degree of protection for the edges of the packageagainst damage by the cords or straps.

It is a still further object to provide a combined package protectingand cord holding device which is of exceedingly simple structure wherebyit may be manufactured at a minimum cost.

INith the above and other advantages in view the invention resides moreparticularly in the novel combination, arrangement, and formation ofparts more particularly hereinafter described and particularly pointedout in the appended claim.

In the drawings, the igure shows a package having my improved protectingand holding device associated with the straps thereof one of saiddevices being shown partially broken away. j

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, 5designates a package of any desired form comprising in the presentinstance a stack of objects such as books, and disposed about thepackage are a pair of spaced straps 6, the ends of which are securedtogether in any desired form (not shown.) Associated with the straps atthe top of the package is a handle member 7 having laterally turned endsterminating in strap receiving loops 8.

The improved package protector and strap holding means comprises aplurality of members disposed at the strap engaging edges of thepackages, and each of these members comprises an angular plate 9 havingat each end a pair of outwardly turned transverse flanges l() definingan angular channel for receiving corresponding strap sections. The strapsections are held against displacement from these channels by bars 1lextending between the flanges at their angle portions. The plates thushold the straps against lateral movement on the package which mightprocure possible displacement of the straps and at the same time theplates prevent injury of the edge portions of the package by the straps.

I am aware that heretofore it has been contemplated to provideprotecting means for packages comprising angular plates interposedbetween the straps and the edges of the package, but such plates wereeach associated with only a single strap and hence would not hold thestraps against lateral displacement. Also such plates would not affordthe degree of protection to the package aorded by the present platesinasmuch as in the present plates the intermediate portions thereof takeup the strain of the straps whereby the strain is distributed along theentire edge portions of the package, this arrangement being particularlyvaluable `in connection with books or Vsimilar objects which would bemarred by the engagement therewith of plate members but little widerthan the strap.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a combined package protector and strapholder comprising an elongated angular plate, pairs of outturnedtransverse flanges at its end portions defining angular strap receivingchannels and retaining bolts connecting the angular outer portions ofthe flanges.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand atMilwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State vof I/Visconsin, in thepresence of two witnesses.

EDWARD E. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

WALTER C. Moss, ANNA C. HAUSFELD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

